Union undergarment.



M. F, ROBISCHON.

UNION UNDBRGARMENT. APPLICATION FILED Nov. s, 15m.

1,105,701. Patented Aug.4,1914.

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over it locates such as'are needed where they will not give disc'omfortlto the wearer 1n tlrtat they are near the neck Where they will `'notaba pressed the body as one leans "mst a chair and'where-there are no tight trments Ato press them against the body. ,his latter point is of great importance to ladies in that it particularly avoids the .presence of any buttons between the corset and the body. It further avoids any buttons 'the sides of the neck or over the shoulders or over the chest where they are uncmnfortable to man or Woman.

By `means of my construction the two short openings can be guarded from spreading open by means of the underlapping placket pieces with their relativelye wide 'oas-cs which keep the placket pieces in place w'. they do not extend far enough down er to the side to'be bulky or uncomfortable as would be the case were one opening twice long used with a proportionately broadbasecl placket piece.-

"y heterm union under-garment as used herein l `mean to include not simply such garments as are used as undcrgarments in the strict sense of beingr Worn under a per sonu d1. 'T clothes but also sleeping' garments entere(l made like and havingthe advantages of the construction above set forth.

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Such garments are worn especially by children. and. have the special advantage of etiiminatin the row of buttons down the front o ack that have heretofore been need.

ing, havingv the main body portion formed from one piece of tubular material and slit downwardly from the neck at the front and at the back, aboutl half way to the Waist line7 triangular placket pieces secured to one edge of each slit and extendingbeyond the opposite edge of the 4body and secured thereto at its base and fastening members for holding closed the neck ends of the sltted bod I 2. A' union undergarment of the class-en-v tered by means of an opening! at the neck end, having a main body portion formed from one piece of tubular material with a neck opening downwardly from Said neck to about half Way to the Waist line a slit in front and a slit in the back and trian- `guiar placket pieces secured to one edge of cach slit and extending beyordthe opposite edge of the body and secured thereto at its base and fastening members for holding closed the neck ends of the slitted body.

in witness lwhereof I have affixed my signature, in the resence of two Witnesses, this 27th day of otober, 1911.

MICHAEL F. RBISCHON. Witnesses Hmmm WILLLAMS, Erma. BUTmRWoRTH. 

